Adjustable hame-clip.



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ADJUSTABLB- HAME CLIP.

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. 7 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- FIRMAN E.. VORGE, FRESNO, CALIFORNIA.

ADJUSTABLE MAME-CLIP.

Specification of Letterslatent.

Patented Marc 20, 1906.

Application filed. October. 12, 1905. Serial No. 282,449.

Be it known that I, FIRMAN E. VoRoE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fresno, in the county of Fresno and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Hame-Clips, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to an adjustable mounting for harness-hames.

best suited for an eighteen-inch collar, they do not fit equally well when thrown onto a twenty-two-inch collar. The consequence is that the draft comes too higher too low on a horse when a set of harness is thrown' onto him which was intended for a larger or smaller animal. Sufficient care is not always 1 taken, and itis'not always within the means of the farmer to see that the. hames fit correctly, and more or less chafing and inconvenience results to the poor animals.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, cheap, practical, easily-shiftable means for attachment of the tugs or traces I with the hames, so that the draft may always be brought at the right point-on the horse s shoulders irrespective of the size of the hames or collar or horse.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and the combination of parts,

as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, in which' Figure 1 is a blank from which my clip is formed. Fig. 2 shows the application of the clip to a hame, being an end view of the clip and a section of the hame. 3 is a side elevation of same; Y

My clip comprises a blank A, Fig. 1, struck from a single piece of bendable sheet'metal and provided at one end with projections or tongues 2 and at the other end with the projections or tongues 3 4, the tongue 4 here shown as between and shorter than the tongues 3. The body of the plate is'bendable to embrace a hame, as 5. The'ends of the tongues 3 are turned over to provide eyes arness is generally for abolt or pin 6, to which the tug or trace is connected. Thetongue's 2 are. adapted to be .folded around the folded ends of the tongues 3 and the tongues 2 3 and body A are perforated correspondingly, as shown at 7, Fig. l to receive the tightening screws or bolts 8, having the nuts 9. By folding the tongues 2 around the pivot ends of the tongues 3 an additional support or reinforced bearing is offered to the tug-pin 6. The tongues '2 are bendable, so as to allow a clip to be used on ahame already in use, being adapted to fold over and to bring their perforations 7 into register with the corresponding perforations through which the bolts 8 pass.

The tongue 4 is folded outward and back and slightly downward, as shown in Fig. 2, and riveted to the late and forms a holder or retainer for the reast-strap ring 10.

By slacking up first on the clamping-bolts 8 the clip may be slid up or down on a hame and then locked, so as to bring the draft at that point on the shoulder and breast most advantageous to the animal.

. Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 1. Abla'nkf for a hame-clip comprising a perforated plate of bendable sheet metal of suitable length and width having two spaced tongues at one end and three tongues at the other all struck from the plate, said tongues having perforations corresponding with the perforations in the plate.

2. The combination with a hame of a shiftable mounting therefor, comprising a bend able metal plate having foldable tongues at its opposite ends, the tongues at one end bent toform aXially-alined separated eyes, a tugbolt passing through said eyes, said eyeforming tongues embraced by tongues on the FIRMAN E. 'VOROE.

Witnesses:

W. S. MoSwAIN,

H. PATTERSON. 

